Here’s a first-timer for me in the sixth boro . . . Miss Emily, a saltwater member of the huge Marquette Transportation fleet. Look carefully and you’ll see she sports equipment not commonly seen here.

Hmm. The link for Miss Emily’s line seems not to work, but this is used for a measure of security for transferring from tug to dock or barge.

Another 6th borough vessel had something similar when doing daysails in Baltimore harbor: Clipper City had a line off the starboard course yard-arm which a deckhand would use to swing from the bulwarks to the dock when arriving, turning the deckhand into the mooring-line handler. When one unfortunate deckhand failed to properly judge his travel and collided with a dock piling, the line was instantly dubbed the “splat-line”.